Theory of Human Experience

[LMNO]

yeah, but surely you're not suggesting that we'd have developed written language without a spoken analogue to base the writings on?

I'd say language in general.

Even without writing, oral tradition had decent time binding ability as well. Not as much as writing, but still.

No, I was saying (poorly, because it was on a cell phone) that the idea of breath control being important is good, and the idea of language is good, but the idea of breath control being important because of language isn't so good.

[LMNO]

I just had a thought:

If you "could" develop a series of statements that encompassed all of the human experience, would that pass a Turing test?

[hooplala]

I agree that breathing is much more important to mental faculties than the average person really believes, but if we are going there so does what we eat, what we drink, how much we eat, how much we drink... and possibly what we think about? 

[Kai]

This thread seems to be coming down to psychosomatics.

[Golden Applesauce]

This thread seems to be coming down to psychosomatics.

What's the big deal about psychosomatics?  You seem to get excited about it a lot, and I don't understand why it's so much more interesting than everything else we don't know about the brain.